Gen Alpha visiting his grandma is left completely confused after mom tells him to hit the side of the old TV to fix it, hilarity ensue: 'My baby has no idea!'

Sharing nostalgic technology as a parent with your kid is quiet the experience. In this case, it was a millennial mother showing her Gen Alpha son what to do when a TV from the 1990s start acting up… You smack it. 

This all makes sense to millennials and older, even some older Gen Z will understand. But Gen Alpha is completely flabbergasted. To us, it sounds perfectly normal to hit a piece of technology when it's not working. There are so many wires and intricate parts in there that can get messed up with even one flake of dust. So, if ya give it a little shake or smack on the side, it can move that dust and wiring around and make it work again. 

This might be obsolete in technology now, but back in the day, it made everyone their own handyman. But, yeah, sure, we can see how someone who has never encountered this kind of ancient technology before be a little taken aback when we smack it around. This little boy in particular did not believe his instructions at first. 

"You have to smack the tv!" his mother tells him. After the first smack, the picture starts to become a little clearer, and the mind of this Gen Alpha more scrambled. "A little harder," his grandma instructs. So the smacks it harder several more times, and as the picture starts to clear up, the face of this little boy is in complete disbelief.